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When a play enters my consciousness, is already a fairly well-developed fetus. I don't put down a word until the play seems ready to be written.
Edward Albee
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Edward Albee
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: March 12
Died: 2016
Died: September 16
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Edward Franklin Albee III
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I was twenty-nine years old and I wasn't a very good poet and I wasn't a very good novelist, [so] I thought I would try writing a play, which seems to have worked out a little better.
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True, I don't begin with an idea for a play - a thesis, in other words, to construct the play around. But I know a good deal about the nature of the characters. I know a great deal about their environment. And I more or less know what is going to happen in the play.
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To a certain extent I imagine a play is completely finished in my mind - in my case, at any rate - without my knowing it, before I sit down to write.
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There may be lots of questions that anybody - an actor or a director or anybody - can ask about a character in a play of mine that are not answered in the play, but if it's a question that I don't think is relevant, I don't bother about it. There's no reason to ask it.
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Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
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Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
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I usually think about a play anywhere from six months to a year and a half before I sit down to write it out.
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Some things that make sense to me don't make the same degree of sense to other people.
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Good writers define reality bad ones merely restate it.
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I said I was impressed, Martha. I'm beside myself with jealousy. What do you want me to do, throw up?
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A lot of people are confused by hello. A lot of people are confused by a lot of things they shouldn't be confused by.
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If the playwright is strong enough to hold on to reasonable objectivity in the face of either hostility or praise, he'll do his work the way he was going to anyway.
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The one living playwright I admire without any reservation whatsoever is Samuel Beckett. I have funny feelings about almost all the others.
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The only time I'll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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If you have no wounds, how can you know if you're alive?
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I am pleased and reassured by the fact that a lot of younger playwrights seem to pay me some attention and gain some nourishment from what I do.
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Art should never try to be popular.
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Every writer's got to pay some attention, I suppose, to what his critics say because theirs is a reflection of what the audience feels about his work.
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